Welcome to the future
Gaming is evolving.
As gamers, we spend hundreds even thousands of hours in digital worlds building up our characters, acquiring items, skills, and more.
Gamers spent over $100 billion on ingame purchases from October 2022 to October 2023, just in the United States. Players gave this money to game developers to further acquire things like weapons and skins to modify their characters. Yet despite purchasing these items, players around the world remain mere renters of their usage. In many games we’re unable to give purchased weapons and skins to our friends or trade them in secure and transparent marketplaces.
A growing community of gamers and developers believe the time and determination it takes to acquire game items makes them valuable. Moreover, they believe gamers should share in this value beyond receiving a quality experience. Often referred to as web3 gaming, this burgeoning sector of the industry has a plethora of approaches to realizing the vision of ownership in digital worlds. Considering the real-world ramifications of digital ownership, Bulkers prefer web3 games developing rigorous ecosystems focused on sustainability in the long-term.
The potential of tokenized games at scale is a world where gamers can play with full knowledge their gaming experiences have value beyond entertainment. They are empowered to redeem or otherwise earn value from their gametime. These industry-wide trends have lead us to choose Star Atlas as our primary game of focus.
Why Star Atlas?
Onchain player-driven economy
Star Atlas is built from the ground up with tokenization and sustainability at its core.
Developers have been building games with varying degrees of tokenization for years. Some web3 games operate much like traditional games, with the game logic and other information processing on centralized servers owned or rented by the developers. Others like Star Atlas are building everything they can using blockchain programs, enabling the game to run on high-throughput decentralized networks. These are referred to as fully onchain games.
Star Atlas is a fully onchain massively-multiplayer game operating on 15 Solana blockchain programs. These programs run behind the scenes to give players the seamless experience they expect, while enabling value-generation through establishing trustless peer to peer marketplaces. These programs control how players move, mine, craft, and more. Alongside, the team has built an integration into Unreal Engine 5.
While the graphics of UE5 are enthralling, they’re also inaccessible for most of the world’s 3 billion+ gamers. Hence, ATMTA, the developers of Star Atlas, have released a browser-based real-time strategy game, and will release a mobile fitness app tied to ingame character leveling. Thus enabling these programs to be interacted with from a smartphone, browser, and full fidelity experiences in UE5. These access points lower the barrier of entry to a smartphone or old laptop with internet. This makes the Star Atlas games and economy accessible across the globe.
ATMTA and Star Atlas are leading the web3 gaming sector in economic design, even producing quarterly economic reports written by fulltime economists. Furthermore, the community built around Star Atlas is one of the most excited and engaged communities in all web3.
Due to all the above, BULK focuses on Star Atlas as our platform of choice to realize our vision.